Timothy Titus and Titus Labs!

First of all - Feliz Cinco De Mayo!

Namtek is very excited to announce a partner-ship with Titus Labs, a great company located in Ottawa, Canada. They offer an amazing message and document classification tool that is really well put together. We recently got the opportunity to interview Nicole Baker, the Public Relations Manager, and she filled us in on all the details!

· Could you give me a brief description of your product?

Titus Labs Message Classification is a classification and policy enforcement tool that ensures that all Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Web Access messages are classified before they can be sent. Labels are fully customizable to meet internal and regulatory marking standards, and can be used to indicate any type of information, including such things as data sensitivity (Public, Confidential), department (HR, Finance), and retention period (Archive for 30 Days). Users add classifications with a simple and intuitive interface that is integrated into their regular Outlook workflow. By enabling users to classify their emails when they create them, organizations can add structure to the vast number of emails that are sent every day.

· What are three things you are excited about with your product?

1. We offer a solution to our customers that is easy to buy, easy to deploy, and easy to use.

2. What started out as a required solution for military and government is turning into a requirement across industries, and a growing market around the world.

3. Recently we’ve added some functionality that will allow content scanning of all email for sensitive information, or personal information such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, etc. Our product now not only provides the basic classification and marking required by military and government organizations, but also acts as a data loss prevention and data spillage prevention tool. We’ve received great feedback from our customers as they see this as a way to further ensure secure information sharing.

· Tell me about a shining moment your company has had

Titus Labs is known internationally for our email security solutions, which have become the de-facto standard for many military, government and commercial organizations in over 28 countries around the world including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium – the list goes on. 100,000 users within US Central Command (CENTCOM), including troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan; 100,000 users at the Australian Department of Defense; 250,000 users at US Veterans Affairs, and 150,000 at US Air Force are using our solutions. Titus Labs was recently awarded a contract by the Canadian Department of National Defense (DND) for 90,000 licenses of Titus Labs Message Classification, which will be used by DND as their standard enterprise email security classification labeling software. It’s exciting to be successful around the world, and gratifying when that success comes back home!

· What’s a quick funny story you can think of about your product/company?

You may think our organization, Titus Labs, is perhaps named after Titus the Roman Emperor of the Flavian Dynasty; however, there is a much more personal connection to the name. The name comes from the children’s story ‘Timothy Titus’ which was a favorite of a young Tim Upton (our CEO) when he was a child.

· What excites you about the future of this market?

The need for email security classification is growing worldwide, with organizations in all sectors recognizing the importance of protecting themselves. Titus Labs has designed a solution that is simple and intuitive to use as it is not always office workers using our product – it’s also being used by soldiers amid all the distractions of a live military theatre. Titus Labs is excited to be a part of this growing market and to be recognized internationally as a leader, providing products which meet the needs of government, military and large enterprises. We are eager to continue our expansion into additional markets in Asia and Europe, and to build upon the growth we have seen over the last five years.

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Once again, we were pleased having spoken with Nicole from Titus Labs, and we are thrilled with the direction they are moving in. If you have any more questions about Titus Labs, you can visit their website at: http://www.titus-labs.com/index.php

Zmanda, Inc. and Open-Source Back-Up

Here at Namtek Corp. we have had many great opportunities to meet and experience new and exciting companies. One of those great companies is Zmanda, Inc. -- an open source back-up company with many thrilling new ideas when it comes to keeping your information safe, secure, and easy to retrieve in the horrible event of a data loss.

We recently met with the Director of Eastern Region Sales, Ron Leonard, who gave us a training seminar about his product and what Zmanda can offer to our customers. After the meeting, we were able to interview Ron about some of the more interesting topics we were interested in knowing about.

Would you give me a brief description of your product?
Zmanda is the leading provider of open source back-up and disaster recovery software.

What are 3 things you are excited about with this product?
• Use of open formats! It keeps our customers always in control of their data.
• Intelligent backup scheduler! It relieves system administrators from guessing of an optimal backup schedule for their environment.
• Use of Cloud Storage as an alternative to Tape and Disk! We do support tape and local disk for backup archives as well.

Tell me about a shining moment your company had recently:
Our company has achieved several milestones over the years. We now conservatively estimate somewhere between a half-million to one million systems worldwide protected by our technology.

What’s a quick funny story you can think of about your product/company?
People ask us frequently how we arrived at "Zmanda" as our name. Well, the company is built around the Amanda project - which is the world's most popular open source back-up project. Founders of the company wanted to have a name which was close to Amanda, but had a vision which was broader than that of the Amanda project. So they flipped the "A" to "Z", and called the company Zmanda. Interestingly, a few months after the company was founded, a journalist wrote an article on Zmanda titled "A to Z of Back-up!"

What excites you about the future of this market?
Back-up is a huge market and the need for back-up will never go away. In fact, as more and more of our personal and professional lives become digital, the importance of back-up will increase even more. We are also delighted to bring the benefits of open source to the storage software market - which has been traditionally beholden to expensive proprietary vendors.

It was a pleasure being able to meet and speak to Ron, as well as have the training session to learn as much as we could absorb of this awesome product. For more information, please visit the Zmanda, Inc. website at http://www.zmanda.com/ .